Do you find often yourself wondering what your marketing program should be? You understand that the finest products ever will not sell if no one knows that you are selling them. A very high percentage of online marketers fail and one very big reason they do is their business expenditures are greater than their profits. It becomes important then to see enough results from your marketing efforts to continue funding your marketing effort. In this article we will discuss ways of promotions that are no or low cost.



What really is no or low cost marketing? No or low cost marketing has many forms.

1. Use the Traffic Sites. Post sales ads on the traffic sites and Safe Lists. This can be time consuming as the traffic sites require surfing a number of site to keep your ad active. There is a time money trade off there. I have seen a number of big name marketers using this method of promotion.

2. Article marketing. We hear that content is king. Quality article posted on the internet with a resource box is one of the favorite methods for no or low cost marketing. The article can aso be posted to your blog, featured in your newsletter and used in an email marketing campaign. There is also available at low cost article distribution sites to distribute your articles to hundreds of article sites.

3. Use forums. The idea here is to find a few forms in your niche area and periodically answer questions and post comments. Now don't blatantly advertise your site, but, let your signature file work for you. From your signature file on your posts you will get back links to your site which is good for search engine optimization. A forum visitor may click on your site url.

4. Social bookmarking sites. Bookmarking your articles submitted to article sites often results in more visitors to your site. Onlywire.com is a no or low cost service that will simplify the bookmarking effort.

5. Social sites. There are more Web 2 Social Sites than you really want to know about. Some of the big ones are Linkedin, Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Actually there are many more social site that can help you marketing. If you find a site that looks good to you find out all you can about it and give it a try. All the above listed sites have listing guidelines peculiar to that site. Become familiar with how each site operates to get the most benefit from using them.

Here are some rules and guidelines they all share:

1. Ask people about themselves and their business, when you first meet them.

2. Do NOT sell yourself or your business.

3. Make appropriate comments. Interact with people often.

4. Offer helpful advice and suggestions to individuals.

5. NEVER spam people

A good Web 2 social site example is Facebook. Facebook says that they 100 million active users. You may want to visit Facebook http://www.FaceBook.com and register. Fill in your profile information and investigate the many way to use this site.

Spend some time on your profile as this can be an excellent way of promoting your business. You will find users actually text messaging their friends. There are many specialty groups to join or you can start one. Some people post their baby pictures, event pictures and other pictures that might be of interest to their friends.

Using Facebook pages you can actually advertise on Facebook. At the bottom of your home page click on advertising. Then click on Pages near the top on the advertising page and the Facebook Pages will open.

Several of the Social Bookmarking Sites will post your bookmark on Facebook and Twitter.

Youtube. I am sure you have heard of youtube. Posting your videos on youtube results in a back link to your site. You can comment on other blogs and receive additional back links. If you list your site on the video you may receive traffic from that.

If you are using a blog to help market your products then investigate sites like Technorati and other blog listing sites. Commenting on other peoples blogs is a good way of getting your url on many different blogs and will result in back links to your blog..